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...EU climate chief rebuts business fears that green policies hit competitiveness Letter in response to this cartoon: Da Vinci is wrong target for climate protest ire / From Bruce Couchman, Ottawa, ON, Canada...
...Banx’s cartoon (January 30) amusingly refers to the news that a climate change protester had thrown soup at the “Mona Lisa”, which was also covered in Robert Shrimsley’s FT Magazine column “The next big...
...You could, in theory, throw yourself in front of the “Mona Lisa”, but people might feel it lacks the element of personal risk which makes for a truly memorable protest....
...Xpeng said it would leverage Didi’s project to help it launch an EV model next year under its Mona brand, targeting the mass market at a price point of about Rmb150,000 ($20,000)....
...Now numbering 2,300 works, it remains smaller than many European equivalents, and boasts neither destination pictures — such as the Louvre’s “Mona Lisa” (c1503-1519), the Prado’s “Las Meninas” (1799) — nor...
...The prudish removal of a jibe about a love rival’s skills on the mattress in “Better Than Revenge” is a misstep, though not exactly akin to Leonardo da Vinci painting a frown over the Mona Lisa....
...I tell him that the Evening Standard newspaper recently equated Le Gavroche’s soufflé Suissesse to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”. He laughs. “If I’m honest, I’m sick to the back teeth of it....
...The artwork I would buy if I could is the Mona Lisa. I had a private audience with Mona at the Louvre and I would love to own it for a few hours. To start with, it would be very good for name-dropping....
...We have published the picture of the Mona Lisa advertising beer because Leonardo da Vinci has been dead for 500 years, taking his work out of copyright....
...In the 1480s, when Leonardo da Vinci fell out of favour in Medici-governed Florence, he sought the patronage of Milan’s ruler, Ludovico Sforza....
...She stands there, one foot raised, arms stretched out, proffering something lost long ago, staring past me as inscrutable as the Mona Lisa. It feels new to be seeing beauty in Brescia....
...“Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” stands alongside Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” as “one of the greatest paintings of all time”, Christie’s declared ambitiously....
...What bitcoin is to the US dollar, an NFT is to the “Mona Lisa”....
...If you can’t own the “Mona Lisa”, you could bid for a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting....
...I confess, as a boy, to wearing a Leonardo da Vinci T-shirt. Da Vinci was my idea of cool, and the attraction lay not in the Mona Lisa’s smile or his sketches of natural phenomena....
...It’s simplest to understand if you think about the parallels with analogue art: a print of the Mona Lisa might look indistinguishable from the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, and a screenshot of an NFT artwork...
...Yet this print is believed to have sold more copies than Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” or Van Gogh's “Sunflowers”....
...May’s long-term protagonist Enzo MacLeod becomes dangerously involved in the latter case, with da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” somehow relevant to both deaths. May on customarily reliable form....
...“I think the volatility in the US will have some effect on European markets,” said Arnab Das, global market strategist at Invesco....
...Why did Leonardo never deliver the “Mona Lisa” to her husband, who commissioned it? What was my grandmother like as a twenty-something in the Blitz?...
...Mona Lisa may be famously inscrutable, but “Salvator Mundi” has surely replaced her as Leonardo da Vinci’s most enigmatic work....
...This year marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, and his “brand” has never been more potent....
...Leonardo da Vinci contained multitudes. A painter, scientist, architect, poet and engineer, he was the ultimate polymath. Now, however, the new exhibition at the Louvre wants to reframe him....
...For all the devastation, however, this was also an era of extraordinary artistic achievements, the age when Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa and Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel...
...The Louvre’s “Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass” ran from October until February at the Paris museum....
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